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Day 355: On the verge of 41

January 14, 2018 phillmemoir

I feel like lightening the mood after yesterday’s post, so I’m going to do a little bit of a memoir piece today. I’m going to write about the first birthday I can remember. I think[…]

Day 354: A moment with Dan Harmon

January 13, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

On this week’s edition of Harmontown, Dan talked about an inappropriate interaction he had with a young female writer when he ran Community for NBC. The story is sad, with Dan ending up so in[…]

Day 353: Maybe we’re doing it wrong

January 12, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

Today I had the opportunity to sit on a small panel to discuss interdisciplinary work with one of my colleague’s classes. I enjoy such opportunities, and I’m glad I was able to stop in. I[…]

Day 352: One more chunk of that Year to Come thing

January 11, 2018 phillmemoir

The last page of that booklet Julie and I filled out last year is a set of six sentences to complete to describe your year. I’m going to do that again, here, now so I[…]

Day 351: Magical Triplets (not the Elite)

January 10, 2018 phillmemoir

Today was not a great day. I’ve just been kind of off, things have been hitting me weird. But I decided to look again at that planning the year thing from last year. It has[…]

Day 350: On the Personal of visual rhetoric

January 9, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

We’re to the point in my current class where we discuss one of my favorite Anne Wysocki readings, and combining that with some other material, I talk to students about visual impressions of people. It’s[…]

Day 349: The difference between “educated” and “elite”

January 8, 2018 phillArmchair phillosophy

I’ve been thinking on this topic for a bit, and each time I start to write about it, I pull back, as I sense that some people will balk at it. So I want to[…]

Day 348: It’s getting a little 41 up in here: a birthday wish list

January 6, 2018 phillconfessional into a dashboard

Hi, all. I decided today to do something really silly and practical but also hilarious in what I might pick– to memorialize the birthday of the Tumblr blog for that class I taught on lists,[…]

Day 347: Skeletor

January 6, 2018 phillmemoir

When I was in kindergarten, I broke my leg. Well, a drunk driver broke my leg, or gravity broke my leg… my leg was broken is the takeaway here. During the year I spent off[…]

Day 346: top 5 in NJPW

January 5, 2018January 5, 2018 phillwrestling

I used to have an entire blog, built for a class, that was just top five lists. The class, for anyone interested, was based on the Nick Hornby book High Fidelity and the idea of[…]